{"id":55,"date":"2024-03-23T15:59:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T15:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayvibee.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2024-03-23T15:59:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T15:59:06","slug":"sobbing-teacher-breaks-down-and-quits-over-critical-race-theory-lessons-in-school-board-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayvibee.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Sobbing teacher breaks down and quits over Critical Race Theory lessons in school board meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Laura Morris, a former fifth-grade teacher at Lucketts Elementary School in Leesburg, Virginia, left her position due to her refusal to teach critical race theory (CRT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">During a Loudoun County School Board meeting, Morris emotionally expressed her opposition to the board\u2019s \u201chighly-politicized agendas\u201d and resigned. She criticized the equity training and curriculum changes related to CRT, which explores how racism is embedded in societal structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Morris explained, \u201cI quit being a cog in a machine that tells me to push highly-politicized agendas on our most vulnerable constituents \u2013 the children.\u201d She shared that her Christian beliefs clashed with the district\u2019s ideologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">She also raised concerns about her personal life being affected by the school district\u2019s political agenda. Morris received emails cautioning against dissenting opinions even in her personal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Frustrated by the lack of consideration for concerned citizens and what she perceived as the district\u2019s bias against certain demographics, Morris chose to resign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">In her passionate speech, Morris encouraged parents and staff to explore alternative educational options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Morris, a former fifth-grade teacher at Lucketts Elementary School in Leesburg, Virginia, left her position due to her refusal to teach critical race theory (CRT). During a Loudoun County School Board meeting, Morris emotionally expressed her opposition to the board\u2019s \u201chighly-politicized agendas\u201d and resigned. She criticized the equity training and curriculum changes related to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wow"],"views":6017,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}